Bay eugene (10 risultati)
Lingua: Inglese
Editore: Unknown
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Da: James Lasseter, Jr, Brooksville, FL, U.S.A.James Lasseter, Jr
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EUR 16,98
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoft cover. Condizione: Fine or Better. Eugene C. Bay was Senior Pastor of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church from 1987 until his retirement in 2004. He was highly regarded by this 3500 member congregation for his sermons. This volume of 264 pages contains the best of the best. A very nice copy appears to never have been studied or e…ven read. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed in a sturdy box.
JOURNAL of the American Research Center in Egypt: Volume 46 - 2010
Eugene Cruz-Uribe, California State University (Monterey Bay)
Editore: Journal of the American Research Center in Egypt, 2010
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Da: Best Books And Antiques, Chandler, TX, U.S.A.Best Books And Antiques
Contatta il venditoreVenditore con 4 stelleCondizione: Usato - Molto buono
EUR 21,01
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoft cover. Condizione: Very Good. Excellent condition. Some ever so slight shelf wear to the cover; interior is pristine. (BR) Box 351.
Editore: William Benson
Da: ThriftBooks-Dallas, Dallas, TX, U.S.A.ThriftBooks-Dallas
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EUR 20,08
Spedizione gratuitaSpedito in U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloUnknown. Condizione: Good. No Jacket. Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.
Editore: Amsterdam : bNO, 1994
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Da: Barksdale Books, Almere, Paesi BassiBarksdale Books
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EUR 10,00
EUR 20,00 spedizioneSpedito da Paesi Bassi a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Good. Oorspronkelijk omslag met flappen in cahiersteek, (paginagrote) illustraties in z/w, groot 8vo.
Editore: Amsterdam : bNO, 1994
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Da: Barksdale Books, Almere, Paesi BassiBarksdale Books
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EUR 10,00
EUR 20,00 spedizioneSpedito da Paesi Bassi a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Good. Oorspronkelijk omslag met flappen in cahiersteek, (paginagrote) illustraties in z/w, groot 8vo.
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Da: Grimbergen Booksellers, Lisse, Paesi BassiGrimbergen Booksellers
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EUR 12,00
EUR 23,00 spedizioneSpedito da Paesi Bassi a U.S.A.Quantità: 1 disponibili
Aggiungi al carrelloKoenders & Van Steijn, Hans Peereboom. Softcover. 34x7 cm. Text in English.
Editore: self published
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Da: The Good Books Store, chicago, IL, U.S.A.The Good Books Store
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EUR 71,50
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Aggiungi al carrelloSoft cover. Condizione: Near Fine. book of sermons of Eugene C.Bay who was Senior Pastor of Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church from 1987 to 2004 book like new.
Altre immaginiEditore: California Historical Society, San Francisco, 1945
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Da: curtis paul books, inc., Crestline, CA, U.S.A.curtis paul books, inc.
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EUR 156,40
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Aggiungi al carrelloHardcover. Condizione: Very Good+. No Dust Jacket. Tan cloth, paper label to front cover and spine. Limited to 500 copies. PO name, slightly bowed, cloth edges rubbed. Prospectus laid in. ; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 112 pages.
Altre immaginiEditore: [lithographed by E. Sachse & Co.], [Baltimore], 1866
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- Prima edizione
Da: Földvári Books, Budapest, UngeriaFöldvári Books
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EUR 24.200,00
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Aggiungi al carrelloFirst edition. Tinted lithographic title; one typeset leaf of text (Navassa; Explanation of the Plates); six colored lithographic plates (Topographical Map; Low Beach; The Harbor; Lulutown and Old Diggings; Lulu Bay; Diggings). First edition. In the publisher's brown half cloth, embossed title on both boards, gilt on the front c…over. [1] leaf tinted lithographic title, [2] pp., [6] leaves of colored lithographic plates. Folio (44 × 54 cm). Rare illustrated album documenting the exploitation of Navassa Island under the Guano Islands Act, with detailed visual evidence of nineteenth-century phosphate extraction, U.S. agricultural and imperial expansion, and the Black labor force on which it depended. Large-format illustrated album, a technical-promotional publication produced in support of guano and phosphate extraction on Navassa Island, a small Caribbean island located some thirty miles southwest of the Haitian coast. Comprising a geological and topographical text with a suite of six tinted lithographic plates executed by E. Sachse & Co., Baltimore, the work presents the island explicitly as the property of the Navassa Phosphate Company of New York. It combines the functions of scientific report and corporate prospectus, documenting the island's geological value, demonstrating the feasibility and efficiency of phosphate extraction, reassuring investors and managers at a distance, and legitimizing its commercial occupation under U.S. auspices. By the mid-nineteenth century, guano had become a valued fertilizer in the United States, as agricultural expansion and soil exhaustion drove demand for concentrated nutrients. Rising prices and fears of depletion led to the Guano Islands Act of 1856, which enabled U.S. citizens to claim unoccupied guano- and phosphate-bearing islands for the United States. As one of numerous small islands brought under U.S. administration through this framework, Navassa was claimed in 1857. Operating under this legal framework, the Navassa Phosphate Company undertook the exploitation of the island, accompanied by a series of publications intended to inform and attract investors. The present lavishly produced album is the most extensive and visually elaborate of these efforts. Its short text combines geographical description, geological explanation, and operational commentary, emphasizing both the quality of Navassa's guano in comparison with the widely used Peruvian guano and the exceptional scale of the deposits, while stressing favorable working conditions, a healthy climate with minimal sickness, and secure anchorage and shipping, presenting the island as well suited to sustained industrial activity. The lithographic plates, based on Gaussoin's sketches, form an integral part of the album's argument. A detailed topographical map and sectional profile present the island as a measured and manageable space, intended to facilitate the efficient control of distant operations. Coastal and harbor views depict calm seas and orderly anchorage, highlighting a well-developed industrial infrastructure-rail tracks, wharves, hoisting devices, workshops, storage buildings, and temporary shelters. Black workers are shown at different stages of extraction and shipment, digging phosphatic material-under the supervision of white guards-moving it on railway carts, and loading boats. Taken together, the images present Navassa as a fully organized working site, offering direct visual evidence of the conditions under which production was carried out. Alongside its industrial focus, the album also records elements of the island's natural environment. Vegetation appears selectively, with palms and scrub framing the worked landscape, while iguanas in the foreground of the digging scenes and seabirds in flight or along the cliffs recur across the plates. These animals directly reflect the text's explanation of the deposits as formed from the accumulated dung and bones of seabirds and large lizards over long periods. The album was produced by Eugene Gaussoin (1812-1881) of Baltimore, a Belgian-born U.S. mining engineer and metallurgist closely associated with the Navassa Phosphate Company. In the same year, he issued Memoir on the Island of Navassa (West Indies) (Baltimore, 1866), addressed to the company's management and intended to justify further investment and operational expansion. Beyond his engineering role, Gaussoin also acted as a scientific observer and collector, gathering zoological specimens later used in scientific description. His writings identify seabirds and large lizards as central agents in the formation of the phosphate deposits; several species later recognized as endemic were first collected at this time, while others were subsequently exterminated during sustained human occupation. Despite the album's consistently favorable presentation of the island, emphasizing health, order, and operational efficiency, conditions on Navassa were in reality harsh, shaped by extreme terrain, isolation, and a coercive labor regime. The workforce, numbering approximately 150-180 Black men, largely recruited in Maryland on fifteen-month contracts, was paid low wages subject to deferred payment, deductions for sickness, fines, and compulsory purchases from a company store, often leaving laborers with little or no pay at the end of their term. Housing was rudimentary, discipline severe, and complaints ineffective. Tensions culminated in a violent labor uprising in September 1889, during which several white supervisors were killed, bringing national attention to the conditions under which the island had been worked and effectively ending large-scale operations. The Navassa Phosphate Company continued nominal operations until the disruption of the Spanish-American War, after which it went bankrupt and abandoned its claim to the island around 1901. Navassa's legal status has remained contested, with Haiti continuing to assert sovereignty, underscoring the distance between the album's promotional narrative. Tinted lithographic title; one typeset leaf of text (Navassa; Explanation of the Plates); six colored lithographic plates (Topographical Map; Low Beach; The Harbor; Lulutown and Old Diggings; Lulu Bay; Diggings). (illustratore).
Material from the Lasartemay Family in Berkeley. Cards from the East Bay Negro Historical Society, Two Photographs of African American families in the Bay Area in the 1930s, and a Post Card from Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay.
Lasartemay Family (Berkeley, CA); Ruth Hackett Lasartemay; Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay, East Bay Negro Historical Society.
Editore: Berkeley, CA: Lasartemay Family-1938., 1933
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- Manoscritto/carta da collezione
Da: Wittenborn Art Books, San Francisco, CA, U.S.A.Wittenborn Art Books
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EUR 89,38
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Aggiungi al carrelloCondizione: Good. Four Cards. 4" x 2.5", from the East Bay Negro Historical Society, Very Good. Two B&W Photographs 4.5" x 2.75" of African American families in the Bay Area in the 1930s, One Good with creasing and minor stains, the other Fair with losses, tears, staining. Two envelopes, one addressed to Eugene Pasqual Lasartema…y, the other to the East Bay Negro Historical Society. Post Card 5.25" x 3.5", MS Signed from Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay, Sept 26, 1933, Good with staining.Provenance: Eugene Pasqual & Ruth Hackett Lasartemay, Berkeley.Eugene Pasqual Lasartemay (1903-1993). In 1937, he earned a First Assistant Engineer's license, becoming the first licensed black marine engineer to sail from the Port of San Francisco. He was also active in a number of civic, religious, and historical organizations in Berkeley and Oakland. He was a co-founder of many black organizations in the East Bay including the East Bay Negro Historical Society, Berkeley Branch of the East Bay Lodge #44, Men of Tomorrow, Inc., Colonel Allensworth State Historical Park, Berkeley Branch of the NAACP. He was an active member of the boy scouts, serving as a Neighborhood Commissioner and Scoutmaster of Boy Scout Troop #43 and was awarded the scout's highest honor - the Silver Beaver Award. He served as president of the United Consumers and Producers, East Bay Negro Historical Society, vice president of the East Bay Pensioner's Club of the International Longshoremen's and Warehousemen's Union and the Berkeley Branch of the NAACP, and treasurer of the Fannie Wall Children's Home of Oakland.Ruth Hackett Lasartemay (1902-1991)She worked for 17 years with the Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company between 1928-1944. She was active in many civic and women's clubs in Oakland and Berkeley including the California State Association of Colored Women's Club, Inc., National Association of Negro Musicians, Inc., League of Women Voters, South Gate Chapter of the Order of the Eastern Star, and was a co-founder and the first curator of the East Bay Negro Historical Society.Scope and Content of Collection.
